Table 3.

Correlation between left ventricular energy loss and other variables in stage1–3 CKD patients

Variables	EL-TD		EL-TS
	Correlation coefficient (r)	P	Correlation coefficient (r)	P
E/e’	0.741	< 0.001	0.383	0.007
A	0.504	< 0.001	0.361	0.012
E	0.732	< 0.001	0.097	0.514
LVMI	0.604	< 0.001	0.561	< 0.001
SBP	0.321	0.026	0.583	< 0.001